Press release from Annual General Meeting in Arise Windpower AB (publ) on 25 April 2012

At the Annual General Meeting on 25 April 2012 in Arise Windpower AB (publ) it
was resolved;

  · to adopt the profit and loss statement and balance sheet,
consolidated profit and loss statement and consolidated balance sheet,
  · not
to distribute any dividend for the financial year 2011,
  · that remuneration
to the Board of Directors shall be SEK 1,000,000 to the Chairman of the Board
and SEK 250,000 to each Board member who is not employed by the company, that
remunerations to the Board of Directors and its Committees shall not exceed SEK
2,500,000 in total. The Auditor’s fee was resolved to be paid in accordance with
customary standards and approved invoice,
  · to re-elect the Board members
Pehr G Gyllenhammar (Chairman of the Board), Jon Brandsar, Birger von Hall,
Joachim Gahm and Peter Nygren, and elect Maud Olofsson as new Board member,
  ·
to appoint one registered public accounting firm as accounting firm for the
period until the end of the first AGM held after 2012 and to elect Öhrlings
PricewaterhouseCoopers AB as such accounting firm,
  · to adopt instructions
and rules of procedure for the next Nomination Committee,
  · to adopt a
Remuneration Policy for senior management,
  · to issue, offer and assign a
maximum of 382,000 warrants to employees of the company or the group,
  · to
authorize the Board of Directors to resolve on acquisition and disposal of own
shares and
  · to authorize the Board of Directors to resolve on issuing of new
shares.

The members of the Board of Directors and the CEO were discharged
from liability for the financial year.

According to the Nomination
Committee’s proposal six ordinary Board members were elected: Pehr G
Gyllenhammar, Jon Brandsar, Joachim Gahm, Birger von Hall, Peter Nygren and Maud
Olofsson. Pehr G Gyllenhammar was re-elected as the Chairman of the Board. The
remuneration for members of the Board of Directors and its committees shall not
exceed SEK 2,500,000, whereof the Chairman of the Board may not receive more
than SEK 1,000,000.

It was further resolved that a Nomination Committee shall
be appointed before coming elections and remunerations. It shall be made up of
five members who shall be appointed by the four largest shareholders as at the
start of October as well as of the Chairman of the Board.

Furthermore, the
Annual General Meeting resolved on a Remuneration Policy for Senior Management
including a fixed salary and, from time to time, variable payments of a maximum
of one-third of the annual fixed salary, senior management. Variable payments
should be based on predetermined, measurable criteria such as permissions, start
of construction and results, and certain personal goals.

The Annual General
Meeting resolved on (i) issuing a maximum of 382,000 warrants entitling to
subscription for a maximum of 382,000 shares in Arise for a wholly-owned company
in the Arise group specified by Arise, and (ii) approving that a maximum of
382,000 warrants are transferred to employees in the Arise group, i.e. the
founding of an incentive program for employees in the Arise group.

The Annual
General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide, until the next
Annual General Meeting, on acquisition of no more than 1/10 of all of
outstanding shares from time to time with funds that can be used for
appropriation of profits. The authorization includes the right to decide on
exemption from a shareholder’s preferential right. If the acquisition takes
place at NASDAQ OMX the price shall be within the, at each time, registered
price interval. It shall be possible to acquire shares in order to change the
capital structure, to finance acquisitions or other transactions, or otherwise
for disposal or redemption.

The Annual General Meeting authorized the Board
of Directors to decide, until the next Annual General Meeting, to dispose of a
maximum of 1/10 of all shares. The authorization includes the right to decide on
exception from a shareholder’s preferential right, the conditions therefore and
the way which the disposal takes place. It shall be possible to dispose of the
shares in connection with possible acquisitions or other structural transaction
or by sale on the open market. When disposing of the shares on NASDAQ OMX the
price shall be to the current quotation.

The Annual General Meeting
authorized the Board of Directors to decide, until the next Annual General
Meeting, on one or more occasions, to issue new shares, with shareholders’
preferential rights to participate in the issue; however such issuing may not
cause the share capital in the company to exceed the company’s highest share
capital according the Articles of Association. The authorization also includes
the right to decide on issue in kind or right of set-off. The issue price shall,
as a starting point, be the share’s market value at each time of issue. The
authorization shall be used for acquisitions or other structural businesses in
the line of business.

All resolutions by the Annual General Meeting were made
with required majority.

Halmstad, 25 April 2012

ARISE WINDPOWER AB
(publ)

For further information, please contact
Peter Nygren, CEO Arise
Windpower AB, +46 706 300 680
Leif Jansson, head of IR Arise Windpower AB, +
46 707 340 554

The information contained herein constitutes information which
Arise Windpower AB is legally required to publish under the Swedish Securities
Market Act (SFS 2007:528) and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act.
The information was released for publication at 15.00 p.m. on 25
April.      

About Arise
Windpower                                                            

Arise
Windpower is one of Sweden’s leading companies in onshore wind power. Its
business concept is to sell electricity generated at the company’s own wind
turbines. The company’s target is to have about 700 MW (equivalent to about 300
wind turbines) in operation or under construction by 2014. Arise Windpower is
listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.

Arise Windpower AB (publ), Box 808, SE-301 18
Halmstad, Sweden, tel. +46 (0)35 20 20 900, org.no. 556274-6726